Clothes-stick.



J. B. HAYS. CLOTHES STIGK.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT.11,1908.

Patented Aug. 24, 1909.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOSEPH B. HAYS, OF CHESTER TOWNSHIP, POWESHIEK COUNTY, IOWA.

CLOTHES-STICK.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOSEPH B. HAYs, a citizen of the United States,residing in the township of Chester, county of Poweshiek, and State ofIowa, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Clothes-Sticks, ofwhich the following is a specification.

My invention relates more particularly to the means employed to engagethe clothes or fabrics, rather than to the stick or staff proper, whichmay be anything that is suitable to the purpose.

The instrument is designed primarily for use in handling boiling clothesor fabrics where the temperature of the water is such as to preclude theuse of the hands. Its usefulness is, however by no means limited to suchpurpose. It may be employed in manipulating and handling fabrics in thedye vat, etc.

It is obvious that in an instrument of this character, means must beprovided to firmly engage the clothes or fabrics, in order that same maybe lifted out of the boiler or vat in which they are being cleansed ortreated. The means for this purpose must be of such a character that thefabrics will not be torn or otherwise damaged.

I attain the objects of my invention by the instrument illustrated inthe accompanying drawings, in which,

(Figure 1, illustrates my device attached to a stick or staff which isshown partly broken away. Fig. 2 is an end view and Fig. 3, a side viewof same. In these drawings, I show how my device, which is preferablymade of heavy galvanized wire, may be attached to the stick. A slot issawed in the end of the stick, the wire inserted and rivets employed asshown.

In Figs. 4 and 5, I show how the device may be formed of wire in such amanner that it may be slipped over the end of the stick, the ends of theWire, 5, being bent and forced into the Wood, thereby preventing samefrom turning upon the staff.

In Figs. 6, 7, and 8, I show how the device may be made by stamping sameout of sheet Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed September 11, 1908.

PatentedAug. 24C, 1909.

Serial No. 452,678.

steel or other metal. Fig. 8 shows the device as blanked out by thestamp, and Figs. 6 and 7, show it formed ready for the stick. A stoutbrad may be driven through the hole, 5, and into the wood of the stickto prevent the device from turning upon the stick.

The device comprises two curved wings or fingers, radiating at rightangles from the staff or stick to which they are attached and beingpreferably opposite to each other. The arrangement is such that when thestaff is revolved in one direction upon its longitudinal axis, theconcave faces of the wings or fingers will engage the clothes or fabricsand hold same and when the staff is revolved in the opposite direction,the reverse will take place. IVhile I prefer the use of two engagingfingers, disposed opposite to each other as shown in the drawings, thenumber of such fingers employed is not arbitrary.

Having now fully described and illustrated my invention, what I claim asnew and desire to secure by Letters Patent is as follows:

1. A clothes stick comprising a suitable staff having a curved engagingfinger upon one end thereof,said engaging finger being so disposed as topresent its concave surface to the fabrics when the staff is revolved inone direction upon its longitudinal axis and in like manner to presentits convex surface when the staff is revolved in the opposite direction.

2. A clothes stick, comprising a staff, a pair of elongated fingersattached to said staff at one end and extending therefrom at rightangles and in opposite directions, the outer ends of said fingers beingcurved away from main portions of the fingers in opposite directions.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal, this 14th.day of May, A. D. 1908.

JOSEPH B. HAYS.

